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... true center of the matter ; and there not only hits the nail on the head , but with crushing force smites it home , and buries it . " Like other good writers , good poets remind us of that smitten nail and that spillable cup . " Perhaps ...
... true center of the matter ; and there not only hits the nail on the head , but with crushing force smites it home , and buries it . " Like other good writers , good poets remind us of that smitten nail and that spillable cup . " Perhaps ...
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... True Thomas , ye maun go wi ' me , And ye maun serve me seven years , Thro weal or woe , as may chance to be . " She mounted on her milk - white steed , She's taen True Thomas up behind , And aye whene'er her bridle rung , The steed ...
... True Thomas , ye maun go wi ' me , And ye maun serve me seven years , Thro weal or woe , as may chance to be . " She mounted on her milk - white steed , She's taen True Thomas up behind , And aye whene'er her bridle rung , The steed ...
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... True Thomas , It will give the tongue that can never lie . " " My tongue is mine ain , " True Thomas said ; " A gudely gift ye wad gie to me ! I neither dought to buy or sell , At fair or tryst where I may be . " I dought neither speak ...
... True Thomas , It will give the tongue that can never lie . " " My tongue is mine ain , " True Thomas said ; " A gudely gift ye wad gie to me ! I neither dought to buy or sell , At fair or tryst where I may be . " I dought neither speak ...
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Entrances | 1 |
Figures of Speech | 2 |
The Person in the Poem | 8 |
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A. E. Housman Alexander Pope alliteration anthology attitude ballad bird Blake blue called cesura concrete Concrete poetry connotations couplet dance dark dead death denotation diction dream E. E. Cummings Eliot Emily Dickinson English eyes feel figures of speech following poem Frankie Gerard Manley Hopkins green hear heart Hurroo iambic imagery irony John Johnny kiss lady language light live look Lycidas lyric meaning metaphor meter Milton's mind myth never night open form paraphrase pattern pauses phrase poem aloud poet poet's poetry Pope prose QUESTIONS reader rhythm Robert Frost simile sing song sonnet sound speak speaker stanza stresses suggest sweet syllables symbol T. S. Eliot tell thee theme thing Thomas thou thought tone tree usually verse W. H. Auden Whitman William William Butler Yeats William Carlos Williams wind Wordsworth write Yeats